Foreword The Nigerian civil war ended in January 1970. In this long time memories have started to grow dim about what really happened. So much is this the case that some highly placed persons now say that the destructive battles of 1965 to…

MR. NGERIBIA lies at the Degema General Hospital with a fractured leg and stab wounds all over his body. His story is as follows: “The frequent molestation of Easterners in different parts of the North gave cause for alarm in Bukuru. Many Easterners decided…

NAIROBI — The most widely watched television stations in Kenya are shuttered, and the government has defied a court order to return them to the air. Opposition politicians are under arrest, and journalists have also been threatened with jail.…

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,400-year-old tomb near Cairo that contains rare wall paintings and is believed to belong to a high-ranking Egyptian priestess, government officials said on Saturday. The tomb is thought to be that of a…

JOHANNESBURG — It is, in South Africa’s political parlance, the season of the two centers of power. In December, Cyril Ramaphosa was elected leader of the African National Congress and, given the party’s pre-eminence, he immediately became the nation’s president in…

WASHINGTON — The United States banned the export of weapons and defense services to South Sudan on Friday in a reflection of the Trump administration’s growing frustration over that nation’s grinding civil war. The ban has little practical effect,…